296 THE USE BOOK. 



INSTRUCTIONS TO CONFER WITH FOREST SUPERVISOR BEFORE FIXING 

 DATE FOR HEARING IN CASES IN NATIONAL FORESTS. 



DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 



GENERAL LAND OFFICE, 

 Washington, D. C., February 18, 1908. 



To CHIEFS OF FIELD DIVISION, General Land Office. 



SIRS : When a hearing is applied for by any claimant for 

 land within a National Forest, against whose claim or entry 

 proceedings have been instituted under circular of November 

 24, 1907, upon report of a Forest officer, you will before fixing 

 a date for the hearing confer with the proper Forest Supervisor, 

 in the matter of the time and place for such hearing, in order 

 that he may, if he so desires, arrange to be present with the 

 witnesses by whom he expects his charges to be proved. The 

 witnesses will, however, be subpoenaed by you as heretofore. 



Whenever possible the attendance of the Forest officer should 

 be secured, as his personal acquaintance with the facts and 

 witnesses will be of great aid to the special agent having 

 charge of the presentation of the case. 



Very respectfully, FRED DENNETT, 



Assistant Commissioner. 



UNIFORM RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



By the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and >Var to carry out the pro- 

 visions of the act for the preservation of American antiquities, approved 

 June 8, 1906. 



NOTE. For copy of the act, see p. 244. 



1. Jurisdiction over ruins, archaeological sites, historic and 

 prehistoric monuments and structures, objects of antiquity, 

 historic landmarks, and other objects of historic or scientific 

 interest, shall be exercised under the act by the respective 

 Departments as follows : 



By the Secretary of Agriculture over lands within the exterior 

 limits of forest reserves; by the Secretary of War over lands 

 within the exterior limits of miltiary reservations; by the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior over all other lands owned or controlled 

 by the Government of the United States, provided the Secre- 

 taries of War and Agriculture may, by agreement, cooperate 

 with the Secretary of the Interior in the supervision of such 

 monuments and objects covered by the act of June 8, 1906, as 

 may be located on lands near or adjacent to forest reserves and 

 military reservations, respectively. 



2. No permit for the removal of any ancient monument or 

 structure which can be permanently preserved under the control 



